On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 12:16:07AM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> pid$1:libsomelibrary:some_function:entry
> {
> self->some_item = copyin_expr("arg[0]->field1->field2->field3");
> ...
> }
>
> and the D *compiler* looking up the CTF for this and figuring out what
> sequence of copyins to translace that into, including, possibly,
> defining a useful struct type for self->some_item.
>
> The bitness of the target would have to be known at compile-time, else
> the compiler would have to generate DOF code for both, 32- and 64-bit
> targets and branch at run-time according to which the running target is.
We don't even need the copyin_expr() part -- there's no reason we couldn't
"know" that copyins were implicitly required.
Adam
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